What is in My Server Rack?
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- This goes ever every device in my 44U rack with a side view of the dashboard for each device. Everything I need is here and more! .
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As someone planning to build a mid sized home enclosed rack (to keep my cables safer from my cats) I'd love to see a part 2 of this on how you made everything so quiet..
As a network engineer, the Mikrotik gear is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, they're cheap, and can do basically anything a high end Cisco router can do. But, the OS is hot garbage, to the point that I won't work on them at all.
HAHA, glad I'm not the only one that thinks this way. Completely agree.
Cool comment.
We need an OpenWRT for network switches.
Got my Huawei 4G Router replaced by the operator to Microtik, until I began to update to nightlies, I was really mad because it would lose connection pretty much 3-50 times a week. Nightlies kinda fixed most of my complaints, still not perfect tho
Then what would you recommend as alternative?
Always fun to see behind-the-scenes! Nice job fitting all that in such a small space. 👍
Very cool, thank you so much for letting us in to see your gear
Best rack tour video I've seen in a long time. Thank you!
Thanks for walking through this with us!
I've been watching your videos for a few days now.
And I had to sub because so many channels with a lean towards open source and free software don't have any real content.
It's the same old videos installing different Distro's in VMs and talking about the apps that are installed with the DE.
The only real content some have is starting flame wars by the usual digs at Microsoft and regurgitated points about updates that haven't been valid since Vista.
Then there's this channel where you have actual content and share genuine important info without hyperbole.
As a long time Windows and Linux user who loves the philosophy of open-source and is none too fond of mega-corporations, your channel is genuinely fun to watch and original in content.
Thanks man, the channel is awesome!!!!!!
I live your genuine cometary. It make doing things more approachable. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
I have no idea how I came across your channel, but I'm glad I did!
This is incredible! Ive always dreamed of making something like this, but ive never had the knowledge of how. But seeing that its actually possible is SO COOL!!!
this is what dreams are made of! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Chris.
My pleasure!
Yes to your comment, "probably should do more pfsense videos". Personally i would love to see a series from you, really enjoy the way you present in your videos. I really want to go into pfsense but i do fear, but i feel with your videos i might make the jump, I'm considering getting the 6100.
Hi Chris,
The Mikrotik's are actually REALLY good price wise. You're saying they are only good for L2. However this is not the case at all. Their ASIC's and OS support nearly every protocol used in the service provider industry (MPLS, BGP, OSFP). Their only drawback is support (there is no professional paid support from Mikrotik), and their gui/cli (yes routerOS has 'proper' CLI), needs some getting used to.
This is the third video of racks and now it doesn’t sound like a word anymore lol. The rabbit holes we go down while watching our favorite creators
Love your channel. ❤️
Thanks for the amazing video 😊
Nice rack... gives me a few ideas for when I come to create my own, even though it won't be any time soon!
LOOKS GOOD and it works for you that's what's important And I also want to Thank you you have been a great help for me on a lot of subjects
Have the exact same Switch, and love it those 24port POE's. Fault is usually bad cables or bad terminations. My switch is running 2 years now with the Fan mod video I put out 2 years ago.
2:17 "red shirt hacker" 👀
Lol Geerlingguy he said registered hacker
@@adrianteri haha, now I can hear it that way
I mean you're not wrong. lol.
You know you’ve made when Jeff Geerling watches your stuff. Holy moly
Lol, well hello there Jeff.
If you are running cables all the way from your rack to your desk, why use moonlight and not just a KVM switch? You would really only need to run the one set of cables to the desk cause most KVMs support switching hot keys. That way you would literally get native performance instead of having to remote in and gaining a bunch of latency.
Cableless looks cleaner and with current remote desktop solution like Parsec and Moonlight the latency is not noticable
Hi Chris, would you be able to do a short video on how you choose your UPS devices? What to look for in terms of Business vs Home use power failure scenarios?
Wish I had a good method for choosing UPS, but generally its APC or Cyberpower... even though I've had all of them eventually fail after about 3-5 years. The big thing with traditional UPS is cycling them out when they die.
In businesses I generally buy two UPS's and use a 1U power switcher that both UPS's feed into... then plug any devices without redundant power supplys into that. Then when a UPS goes out... generally one of them will be left holding up the load and gives me time to swap them out with no downtime to the business.
@@ChrisTitusTech I like that strategy. Thank you for the detailed response. Very much appreciated!
Man... I cannot express how interesting I find these videos. Great content, Chris!
One word of advice concerning Mikrotik routers/switches. The SwitchOS is far simpler to use (in my opinion) and can do everything that 95% of people buying said products want to do. You can even manage VLANs on the simpler and less fully-featured SwOS.
In my homelab setup I use pfsense, truenas and xcp-ng (& Xen Orchestra) and can only recommend all of them.
Please do more server videos I am very interested in how your setup is in more detail thanks :-)
Nice setup
pfsense content would be GREAT, I run into some issue with bridging my NICs, IPv6, and PPPoE. Would like to learn more.
Hi Chris, love your wallpapers, do you have a link to you favs by any chance?
4:10 symptoms you would likely be experiencing can be caused by bugged out firmware, that can go with any mid grade industry smart switch.
Suggesting not to overlook the possibility and see if you can upgrade firmware for the switch after pulling it out of rack production and see if you get same results while doing testing.
Maybe a cheap laptop and kali linux you can do stress tests on the switch to see if you find any issues.
I got an HP Procurve 2950 48 port switch in my home rack, at first setting up LACP on 4 ports was not happening, worked for an hour, after that, the 4 lagg ports had connection activity but no data transfer. (You have to use Putty and serial adapter because web console does not provide features.) So.
i did some investigating,
Found out firmware was never updated on switch, previous production from an older business IT, just slipped switch on rack and connected single 1gb ethernet to power the rest of the office.
(Thats common for uneducated IT in my state)
So,
Saved config file, downloaded newest Firmware, applied new firmware in web panel, restarted switch, uploaded saved config file,
plugged all 4 lacp connections back to 24, 23, 22, & 21
We were back online and haven't had a problem with it since.
Switch been running 4 years non stop.
Nice Rack bro
Chris, regarding your Mikrotik switch, switch to Switch OS instead, much better if you use the switch as a switch and not as a router. Your Mikrotik has both Router OS and Switch OS built in. You can switch between them in the settings . 👍🙂
Can you post a quick 360 video of the space sometime? I feel like I still am not appreciating just how small the room is
I like your website where we can find scripts and how to optimize Windows it's very useful and the site remains simple
I think i missed it in the video: How are you switching between the screens on your different computers that are on the rack? Are you running a video cable across the room, or some sort of KVM? I totally love the approach of processing audio FIRST, that's by far the best way in my opinion. It's cool to see you process this way. I use a PreSonus Studio Live. No strain on the PC!
Was wondering the same thing :)
Everthing except the Gamestream box is displays all the time on a monitor, then I switch between them with one keyboard and mouse using Synergy or Barrier. For the Gamestream box I pipe that to any PC I have to play games anywhere using Moonlight and nVidia Game Streaming.
@@ChrisTitusTech Thank you so much for the reply! Your video makes me want to get 10 gigabit networking now 😁
How are you easily switching between the Windows/Linux machines? Lot of inspiration here, thanks!
I use the moonlight project. Here is a video I did on that: th-cam.com/video/fnoFxi3-Pvc/w-d-xo.html ... I'm also using a tiling window manager to switch quickly between all my workspaces.
Have all the machines in one place is very organised. How did you get all the IO from your rack to your desk?
my version: "what's on my server shelf, and what's that hanging by the ethernet cable?!"
Epic video
My wiring looks the same. I bet you will get some complaints about messy wires but with so few It doesn't matter. Personally with the wires the way they are it is easier to trace them to and from other devices.
Network storage is super cool
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on unRAID? I know it's just a bunch of disks with parity (and a cache drive) so you only get the performance of one disk if it's on the array but I've been running it for over a year now and love it.
Cool!!!
17:00 using the 192.168.*69*.0/24 space, *nice*
Could you tell more about your FCP workflow with a 10Gig NAS? Nor only the Network side, but i‘m also interested in your workflow on FCP, like how you import, storing, folder structure, if you use proxy media etc. I am about to do the same, and i am not sure how to get the most performance out of it
14:09 Have you tried AMD VCE, and intel QSV, just curious about your experience. I use VCE just to direct stream to a few people, but i imagine it is feature barren for actual video production
I haven't, but Its only a matter of time before the encoding catches up to nVidia.
Chris, can you build a linux lamp server with OpenCart on it?
I see the Hackers movie Gibson on the screen, what is that? just a screensaver or some wallpaper engine? got a link?
Noob question but how is the monitor output switching between all those computers so fast and smoothly?
Honestly having a rack with linux and mac boxes and being able to switch instantly sounds so cool
Does the Soundcraft mixer also have an audio interface for your computer or do you use something else for that?
Who makes the gamestream box case?
How do you get moniter signal keyboard mouse from your server rack to where you sit do you have another pc you remote from
9:52 "This is actually called DAS, direct attached storage" - iscsi falls under SAN, definitely not DAS
Correct, however when used on a single target in Windows using iSCSI initiator, it is pretty much a DAS at that point.
In a virtualization setting it can have multiple hosts connecting to a target for VMs and such, which typically would reside in a SAN. SAN to me is Storage Area Network with something a hell of a lot more expensive than a cheap NAS box.
@@ChrisTitusTech DAS to me specifically refers to there being no network installed. That storage *certainly* isn't direct attached. While SAN may typically be an enterprise technology, so is iSCSI, and so was even NAS until small NASes were popularized. I can't see any justification for trying to redefine DAS to include networked storage.
with a eathernet rack, can you plug a input and have it go to multiple computers, routers (via eathernet)?
def wanna know how to make a streaming box. Can't stand damn dual boot
I got an ad for a Mac before this video.
As for Mikrotik - use Winbox way easier then using web UI
Great video ... How much electricity does that system take?
I'd like to see more about the power and cooling aspects of the rack, too. What UPS, if any? 120v20A circuit or did he go 240?
Anyway from my estimates I'd guess between 400 and 600w for the rack with most of it idling unless he's doing heavier processing than I think he is. All of those at full tilt could probably run north of 1200w if you pushed it.
Steev knows his stuff, I just checked my UPS and its at 445 va and its a 1500 va UPS. Runtime probably would be about 5 minutes if powered off with all PCs on. With just networking equipment, runtime would probably be around 45 min.
Can I say 'nice rack'? Anyways, sweet setup!
Holy crap
If you hear buzzing sound, you might need to replace power board in Mikrotik. That is it.. It can wrk for 10 years without other problem.
why don't put the rack in one of those soda refrigerators ? just make some holes for cabling and a/c-intake and hot air exhaust.
Claiming that this switch can't handle L3 is incorrect. Also claiming no MikroTik devices have fans is also incorrect.
How are you remote accessing the Mac mini? I do the GameStream PC so I can game anywhere in the house but I do it via a VM and access it via Steam In-Home or Parsec. I’m working on expanding my system and thinking about adding a Mac mini for my wife but not sure how she can remote in.
parsec now work with mac os as a host
@@rodrimora I just saw that after making this post. Thanks!
Wonder what your thoughts are on UniFi gear?
Love the Access points, but there USG and "Dreammachines" are the fisher price equivalent of network gear. Made to be noob friendly, but not very powerful. You'd rarely see any Unifi network switches, gateways in a typical rack for big companies. Most of that would be Cisco or Arista style networking gear.
How are you switching between the MAC Mini desktop and linux? This looks much smoother then my setup using VNC from windows to MAC. How are you swapping back and forth between the Linux desktop and Windows ? is that just moonlight?
How many KWh/month does the room use?⚡
Mikrotik is the industry standard in radio broadcast environments. You find them everywhere. the UI is ugly, but these things runs 24/24/7 in Europe they are not cheap. So I have to move to Canada or the US?
pfsense is super cool
How much does this thing cost to power?
10:12 I'm not sure I understand your usage of crossover cable, how does a crossover cable affect your FCP workflow? Does crossover even have meaning in a 10g Ethernet environment? Even 1g Ethernet eschews dedicated rx/tx pairs
So crossover cables are a bit of a dead thing and probably not the term to use as everything is smart enough these days you don't have to make this cable. However, I am using a cable from the Synology to a 10G port in the Mac Mini. This Mac mini has a static IP on another subnet and the synology 10G port is also on the same subnet. This allows them to talk to each other. I setup NFS shares on this isolated network for direct access.
So it's effectively a crossover setup from the old days where you didn't want to use a switch or (hub with collisions). The crossover is completely unnecessary, but its just the old school in me coming out just incase I was editing a video and my switch went down or somehow was congested, etc...
Both the Synology and the Mac have other ethernet ports used for internet access or to access the main subnet.
This seems really cool but I don't yet grasp the usefulness of this over dual booting. I'm currently dual booting and it has mostly been fine for my needs. Is the advantages that you can have both linux and windows running at the same time, store data separately from the PC, and move data between computers easily? Not trying to argue that it is pointless, I want to know why go with this setup over a more traditional, single PC setup.
That closet looks bigger than my bedroom.
NFS vs SMB? After much research and testing on our Mac video production equipment with our 10-40 Gbps dedicated NAS network we've chosen SMB. Is there a reason you've chosen NFS over SMB? Just wondering.
WHAT!? SMB over NFS... I've have never seen a test in my professional career where SMB was a better performer.
SMB is absolutely trash and is only used by for compatibility with Windows and legacy systems. Not to mention it's security issues.
NFS has far less overhead per packet and is much more efficient. For video editing, SMB shouldn't even be an option, it really boils down to NFS vs iSCSI and the new mac's don't do well with iSCSI yet.
So NFS wins by default.
Is there a KVM switch?
Or how do you use your computer(s)?
Probably login from afar
i like OPNsense and VyOS compared to PF :)
Perfect frame from obs 14:09
Next time show us how you use the green screen for the videos and how you store it. XD
Not to fancy, Its just a pull down with a ceiling mount. Cost about $70 off amazon.
Are you remoting into your Mac if so how are you doing that with low enough latency and high enough FPS to edit video?
I believe it's a kvm switch
I actually mirror all my screens and use one keyboard and mouse with Synergy. The HDMI split happens on the mirror and one goes to my monitor and the other into a capture card. So I have everything at my finger tips without pressing a button.
@@ChrisTitusTech would love to hear more about this in a video. I think other people might get some benefit out of it also.
@@ChrisTitusTech PCIe capture card? Or are you using an external video switch like a blackmagic atem switch.
@@kyleolsen3305 Elgato Cam Link Pro with 4 HDMI inputs
What Linux Distribution is he using? I can't identify
I have a box of Mikrotik routers. For the life of me I could never get the wireless to have good throughput or to have reliable connectivity. Even tho I like the OS and hardware I've moved on. One of those products that works but not quite as it should.
I'm struggling with my mikrotik router as well, love the company and its philosophy, but the wifi is too bumpy for my wife.
Mind me asking what you're using instead?
@@ruyan247 I use mikrotik for my routing and switching and it works great for that. For wireless I've been using grandstream access points whichare cheaper than unifi with much better performance
On the subject of old raspberry Pis and Jetson Nano, i wish they hadnt moved away from the DIMM/SODIMM form factor on the rPi CM4, and i wish Nvidia would update the Nano with a newer node, maybe more cores, and ampere
I know they have newer versions of the Jetson, but not the Nano, the affordable one. I'm not paying $600 for what is a low end cellphone, with a GTX **30 class card strapped to it
Yeah the power is from it being cheap, nVidia I doubt will put too many resources into making the nano as the market is so small that they don't care compared to their other ventures. However, there are other players that are joining the space and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
@@ChrisTitusTech True, i'm also wishing they'd update it because its effectively the same silicon as in the Shield TV. I figure that once one of them is updated, the other is soon to follow.
Hi, which video is the one mentioned at 13:35?
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/fnoFxi3-Pvc/w-d-xo.html Game on ANY PC Moonlight project
You can also just buy an old HP workstation with a 2000 or 3000 series intel i5 for around 100 bucks and run Pf Sense off of that.
Replace the Aruba with Cisco L2/L3 switch, you will be very happy
Not if he wants it to be quiet/silent he won't.
Please do a video about Linux and Microsoft. Very interested. Great video and amazing setup you have. Breathtaking.
ME: watching this video, then turning back to my one dead standard router provided by my ISP...
Well, I think I have to step up my game! :-)
It’s the unregistered hackers that get you every time :\
How you switch betwen desktops so fast
Hotkeys through a tiling window manager.
I need to become a famous TH-camr now... I want a rack too lol!
In my country that thing would cost at least 200k where the minimum wage is 1k ish per month... too expensive.
Look for company discards! Obviously your country may be different but usually you can get by in the home with a generation or two (or three) older equipment than the corporate world can.
I would love to hear how much was spent on this rack and if any equipment was used before purchase
Most of the rack started with just company discards like Steev said. Almost the entire thing was then slowly pieced together from old equipment. Heck, most of the equipment is pretty old now. I don't think there is anything in the entire rack that is over 1k retail. The synology with the large drives is definitively the most expensive part of the rack.
So running 4 different machines out of your rack, do you have them hard wired to a single monitor? How do you interface with them? Do you have different m/K for each comp or do you only run one hard wire and remote into the others from your main machine.
I’ve always wanted to run my computers out of a rack but never figured out the best way to get 0 latency with high refresh rate and resolution displays while keeping my audio interfaces and m/k and accessories running at full bandwidth.
Each one has its own monitor and using Synergy/Barrier with one keyboard and mouse... no need for a KVM. I can push the gamestream box to any pc to play games... include a pi.
Windows Question: 10 and 11. I have several external USB 3 drives. Mainly large files of media 110M-2gb file sizes. But searching for a specific file, even targeted to a single folder is SLOOOW. I watch that address bar/progress bar creep to the right. Why can I not have that super fast search results I see in Mac OS. Any tips? (Yes I have index turned on)
Try using software Everything. Windows index so garbage
@@erics8362 agreed on Everything search. I don't understand how Microsoft can't implement a better search within Windows
Why did you stop posting your videos on Odysee?
Wasn't sure where the platform was going and had concerns over it's direction. I may pickup the sync sometime in the future when there is more information, but for now I'm in a holding pattern to see what happens.
Why Synology Hybrid RAID over RAID 5?
I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who endorses raid 5, especially on 16TB drives. Most admins would probably recommend raid60 at a minimum for parity/performance on that large of drives (but 60 would eat up a crap load of space for that few of drives with little benefit over 10)
@@UnreasonableSteve Except Synology themselves endorses RAID 5 over SHR. They published a TH-cam video on Oc. 22 entitled "Getting started with Synology for the Home User - Synology Webinar" where it is specifically recommended to use RAID 5 instead of SHR due to performance issues.
Most raid is crap in my opinion. ZFS pools is really where it is at for bigger environments. This tiny setup really doesn't matter between RAID 5 and SHR. Also, Synology doesn't endorse SHR because BTRFS had problems years ago specifically with this configuration. However, I absolutely hate RAID in general as someone who has seen first hand a raid controller go out... I'd much rather have a BTRFS based setup or even better a ZFS style pool in something like TrueNAS if you don't use Synology.
I'm more of a hardware guy than software. That's what the ladies say at least.
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"I'm not made of money".
*craft computing
Switch to the switchos on the mikrotik. Much handier to use for just basic networking.
Oh no, Mikrotik, soundcraft, euw... At least it's not Pink!
Hahaha, so true 😉
I think you had a typo, "*too bad* it's not pink" you surely meant ;)
All that white... hurts.